A guess at some gains: gamboling while a calf steady hair sideways moving teeth walking in line every twilight lying in the dirty creek teat relief hardly any thoughts standing naked in rain licking your baby allover four legs a bigger head another stomach sleeping whenever hooves not knowing you are dying a tail lying down whenever same food everyday deeper eyes easier childbirth.Choose

Carol Gloor's work appears most recently in the anthology In Transit, and in the printjournals East on Central and Habitat, and in the online journal Front Porch Review. Shehas upcoming work in the print journals Crone Magazine and Kerf. Her poetrychapbook Assisted Living was published in 2013.